Back-end Developer

London, England, United Kingdom · Tech

Description

*Visa sponsorship available*

About carwow

carwow is the most convenient, stress-free way to find and buy a new car, at a price you can be confident in.

We’re a driven, energetic startup with a team of 160+ based in London (Victoria) and Munich. Our team are relentlessly driven and constantly asking ourselves how we can make carwow better, and we’re looking for proactive, motivated software developers who want to help us change the future of car buying.

About the tech team

We have a number of new and exciting projects in the pipeline and need help in solving interesting and impactful technical challenges with a range of contexts — from infrastructure to the front-end.

As a team our mission is to create a technology driven company where we are empowered to use our skills to solve difficult problems and scale the product.

To achieve this, we are looking to hire software developers that are passionate about developing simple solutions for complex problems. Successful candidates will work with our team in a full stack position; part of one of the best small companies to work for in the UK.

We believe that diversity of experience, whether that be personal or professional, contributes to a broader collective perspective and will consistently lead to a better company with more innovative solutions and products. We are working hard to increase the diversity of our team and be more inclusive wherever we can in order for people to consider becoming a part of it.

Why should you join carwow?

We work quickly and you’ll be able to have a direct impact on the product — pushing code to production within your first day

You will be working with a company who are passionate about quality — TDD means a lot to us. Whilst delivery is important, we don’t sacrifice on quality

You will work within a truly collaborative, pragmatic, team where you can learn from some highly-experienced developers from many different professional backgrounds

We’ve got a team culture of open-mindedness that allows you to have your opinions and insights be heard,considered and tried

We’re a growing team so you’ll have plenty of opportunities to grow your own skills and work your way towards whatever career ambitions you may have

We promote continuous learning and don’t pigeonhole our developers to just knowing Ruby, you will be able to attend conferences for different types of technology such as Elm Europe, ElixirLDN, dotCSS / JS, Full Stack Fest and Strangeloop

We care about being a happy and balanced team

You will have the opportunity to gain more experience around mentoring and coaching junior developers should you wish to

You will be working for a technology driven company, where the main stakeholders have a very good understanding of the product development process and nuances of software development. One of our co-founders is the CTO who is very passionate about software engineering and does a great job of educating the company about how exactly building software with agility works

You will be exposed to the entire product development process, allowing you to develop skills outside of software development

We have challenging scalability and are growing everyday. Currently there are around 3 million visitors a month on average to the website - having grown from 2 million in the last 6 months!

There’s lots to do; we are building tonnes of new features all the time and still defining what carwow is as a product

Every Friday, the engineering team is given the freedom to take a break from the backlog and work on something of interest that contributes to the technical maturity and stability of our codebase - Backlog free Fridays

You can get involved with a number of conferences that we sponsor/ run/ host such as Brighton Ruby Conference, Ruby Hacknight, Codebar and London Elixir Dojo

You should apply if:

You care about software excellence

You know and want to learn more about software best practices such as refactoring, clean code, domain driven design, etc

You have professional experience with a dynamic web-based programming language (e.g. Ruby, Python, or PHP)

You understand why testing software is useful, and try to write well tested code as much as possible

You can demonstrate a good understanding of web technologies

You are pragmatic in your approach to writing software (e.g. you take context into consideration, and don’t follow rules blindly)

You enjoy working with others

You want to work in highly collaborative and cross-functional teams

We believe diversity of experience (whether that be personal or professional), contributes to a broader perspective and will lead to a better company with highly innovative products and solutions. We’re working hard to increase the diversity of our team and be more inclusive, so if you’re not sure you fit the criteria, why not get in touch? We value confidence whilst being humble, so are keen to meet those with talent who are the right fit.

The teams are focussed around reaching core objectives for the year. Some of our objectives for this year include: launching a leasing proposition, increasing sales of in-stock cars, increasing dealership groups engagement

We love Ruby, JavaScript, Git, TDD, and OSS and use a bunch of other technologies daily; Haml, Sass, Heroku, AWS being the most usual suspects

Benefits

A brand new laptop — developers usually use Macbook Pros or Dell XPS 13s with their favourite flavour of Linux (feel free to ask for what allows you to do your job best)

A budget towards peripherals and equipment (most of our developers end up getting mechanical keyboards with theirs)

carwow
does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, color, religion, age, national origin, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other reason prohibited by law in provision of employment opportunities and benefits.